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South Korea accuses Intel of anti-competitive behaviour
Blog We are hopeful that we will be able to show to the commission’s satisfaction that the microchip market is functioning normally and our conduct has been pro-competition and ultimately beneficial to consumers,” he said.
[September 12, 2007, 16:57]
Is there a smart card in your future?
News Today, smart cards -- distinguished from ordinary magnetic-strip cards by the presence of an embedded microchip -- are surprisingly prevalent in Europe. Smart cards tend to conjure up futuristic visions of a credit-card-sized device carrying all...
[February 8, 2000, 9:53]
Asylum seekers get UK's first biometric ID cards
News All data held in the microchip will be protected by a software key escrow. Asylum seekers in Croydon have become the first people in Britain to be issued with high-tech biometric cards by the Home Office.
[February 4, 2002, 17:26]
To contravene one's human rights, etc
Talkback No way must police or any other taxpayer funded or government organisation be permitted or able to access card data on a microchip. So the Met is now getting the work done on behalf of all the rogues that want to steal IDs and personal data.
[August 28, 2009, 9:36]
Intel: Chips will network the world
News Five years from now, radios will be so small they'll be tucked into a corner on a microchip, drastically reducing the cost and size of cell phones. According to Intel's chief technology officer, computing and communications aren't just going to...
[March 1, 2002, 10:53]
UK leads Europe in chip design
News Industry analysts say that such companies, and particularly chip intellectual property (IP) firms, are a growing force in the microchip industry. The UK is well ahead of other European countries in what industry analysts say is the next big trend...
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
UK chipset designer predicts larger losses
News Shares in microchip designer ARM Holdings fell 9.9 percent to 196 pence, while software company Logica saw its shared drop 5.4 percent to 664 pence. Arc International, the UK chipset designer, brought more bad news to the technology sector on...
[July 6, 2001, 16:48]
US tests simplified credit-card payments
News The PayPass cards contain a special microchip that transmits account details wirelessly, using radio-frequency identification (RFID), the same technology that Wal-Mart Stores and the US Department of Defense are exploring to keep better track of...
[December 19, 2003, 14:55]
Mobiles change into cashpoints
News Smart cards are usually about the size of a credit card and contain a microchip inside that can be loaded with personal data. Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo has launched a service for smart-card handsets that lets customers use their...
[August 10, 2004, 8:50]
Costs still inhibiting RFID takeup
News The average cost of a tag - which consists of a microchip and antenna which sends data to reader devices - was 30-50 cents (12p-21p), according to Vass, well above the five-cent-per-tag average recommended by analysts Frost and Sullivan.
[July 20, 2005, 16:45]
Microtune doubles damages against rival chipmaker
News However, a Broadcom spokesman said the company was pleased by another ruling by the judge on Thursday that will allow Broadcom to keep shipping a new version of its tuner chip, the BCM 3416, which does not, according to Broadcom, use Microchip's...
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
Patent campaigners make government breakthrough
Talkback IT isn't different - patent your new microchip or circuitboard or incredible widget, just so long as it isn't obvious and pushes the boundaries of possibility. Simon Gentry wrote: Programmers understand innovation and invention, it is their bread...
[December 15, 2004, 11:32]
Pfizer firms up RFID plans
News Each tag contains a microchip that stores a unique serial code, known as an Electronic Product Code, and an antenna for transmitting the code wirelessly. Viagra may help many couples heat up the bedroom, but it has also helped fuel a huge...
[January 9, 2006, 9:00]
Smart chips get under our skin
News One US-based company, Applied Digital Solutions, has already developed a microchip -- dubbed Digital Angel -- which was originally marketed as a tracking device for humans. The mystique and fear surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) tends to...
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
New digital display standard moves closer
News ATI, Dell, Genesis Microchip, Hewlett-Packard, Molex, Nvidia, Philips, Samsung and Tyco drafted the DisplayPort specifications in May and submitted them to VESA for approval as a standard earlier this week.
[August 19, 2005, 11:00]
Study: More anti-fraud measures needed
News And credit card issuers have been pushing smart cards, or cards that have a microchip embedded in them containing customers' personal information, for years. Credit card and debit card fraud could cost online merchants billions of dollars over the...
[January 22, 2001, 8:26]
Employers say ID-card plans 'too vague'
News The planned national ID card, based on passport and driving licence information and incorporating a microchip of biometric data, will be phased in from 2005. The government's ID-card scheme is "vague and insufficiently thought out", the...
[August 13, 2004, 14:35]
'Wobulation' doubles projectors' resolution
News Wobulation requires Texas Instruments technology called Digital Light Processing (DLP), which controls what light is displayed by rapidly swivelling tiny mirrors on a microchip so that tiny beams are projected on a screen or are deflected elsewhere.
[June 10, 2004, 15:15]
Intel releases details of Web Tablet
News Intel is relying on devices such as Web pads and handheld computers to continue the growth of the microchip market, as the North American and European PC markets have matured. Intel has unveiled the first details for its Web Tablet Internet access...
[February 27, 2001, 7:02]
Mondex demos smartcard-enabled mobile e-commerce
News A microchip in the card keeps a record of the last ten transactions and the cash can be locked with a code set by the user. Mondex this week has been demonstrating a mobile phone equipped with a built-in smartcard reader.
[November 17, 1999, 13:46]
